Slice of Life Story Challenge

Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge

It's Tuesday! What might you step back and notice in the hustle and bustle of life today? Let's write, share, and give.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge

It's Tuesday! Let's get slicing!

Our Favorite Things Blog Series

ICYMI: Our Favorite Things Blog Series

Today is the final day of our August Blog Series: Our Favorite Things. Check out today's post for a recap of the week as well as an opportunity to enter the giveaway.

conferences · conferring · Our Favorite Things Blog Series · writing workshop

Top Three Predictable, Beginning of Year Conferences: Our Favorite Things

My favorite conferences are all closely connected to my beliefs about writing instruction. The teaching points in each conference are ideas I want to be front and center for kids as we co-construct the workshop and community we will live and play in over the coming months (at any grade level). 

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge

It's Tuesday, and TWT Blog is in the middle of a blog series about Our Favorite Things. Slice of Life is definitely on that list!

details · small moment · summer vacation · writing life

A Moment to Inspire Summer Writing

Consider this an invitation. An invitation to seek out the magic happening in your own environment. An invitation to fuel your writing life with small moments that help you to appreciate all that is worth writing about. An invitation to encourage a young writer (or a group of young writers) to do the same. 

emergent writers · kindergarten · purpose · writer identity

Celebrating Growth When(ever) it Happens

It’s dramatic when the light comes on, when a writer suddenly takes a step they had only recently not yet been ready to take. As a teacher of writers, I can’t wait to pounce on those moments, to facilitate the avalanche of growth on the horizon. 

agency · feedback · Reflections and Shifts As We Move Forward Blog Series

Leveraging Technology to Amp up Feedback for Writers: Reflections and Shifts as we Move Forward

In this topsy-turvy year, when I was not expecting to teach a remote kindergarten class, I was also not expecting to discover strategies for upping my feedback game with writers—strategies that I plan to continue using once the world has righted itself and workshop is in-person again.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Day 31 of the March SOLSC! #SOL21

It is the final day of the March Slice of Life Story Challenge! In the announcements today we have a video message, a badge, and more prizes!

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Day 30 of the March SOLSC! #SOL21

Today is day 30 of 31! So close to the finish line. . .

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Day 29 of the March SOLSC! #SOL21

It's day 29, and we can't wait to write, share, and give. Join us!

Slice of Life Story Challenge

Day 28 of the March SOLSC! #SOL21

It's day 28 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge! Today the winners of the Mentor Prize are announced!